New annexation rules in the works

Bill would give public landowners a say in annexation

1:35 AM,
Oct. 24, 2013

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State lawmakers are trying to change the law to give public landowners a say in expedited annexations.

Ohio Rep. Peter Stautberg (R-27th District) recently
introduced a new bill
that would bring annexation rules back to where they were more than a decade ago. The original intent of the law, Stautberg said at a recent Anderson Township trustees meeting, was to not allow townships to use roadways to block annexations.

But the wording in that bill made it so "any land owned by a political subdivision had no rights in annexation," Stautberg said. ...